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i'm a bit sick of all the erratic nme feedback so when i was asked to give some constructive crit last week i decided at first it was a bad idea and then decided to do it, then found out it was with alan mcgee. the results of some of it is now as a ramble in my blog. be curious what you all think and whether anyone thinks i may have just killed dis records chances of them ever getting reviewed in nme. i think much of what i said is relevant to all media, including dis and it's important that a world so excited about new music really evaluates what it's doing.

When I was a teenager what I wanted and got from the NME was information about music and high quality writing from people like Morley and Penman. The NME declined slightly throuhgout the eighties until it was destroyed by its owners in 1987. The magazine has gone through various phases since then, including a bizarre period in the early nineties when it was infested with happy-clappys, and has now levelled out intellectually and musically: Today the NME has no writng of quality and has very little new information about music.

In the terms that you describe the NME as a supporter and promoter of new music it is almost an irrelevence. It has the stature once claimed by Smash Hits. The NME is no longer a bridge between the relatively unknown independent part of the music business and mass awareness of new music.

seems to have more to do with Wella hairgel than bands - but everyone grows out of it - as a marketing tool in the modern age its probably perfect even if it is blinkering out half the potential that exists - its nothing new though is it?

think you've killed Dis chance's for anything as big as getting reviewed in the nme. i've seen lots of positive reviews and comments in there and it seemed like the nme had gone 180 and were supporting les incompetents, before the events and eventual split of them.
although i don't know what you said in this odd "session" you did, care to elaborate?
p.s. i think you are totally wrong on the subject on the horrors.perhaps it was hard when you were face to face with those in charge, but they destroyed that bands long term future (as you describe later on) by thrusting into the limelgiht so soon. they'll get the inevitable "early rush" and be big for festival scene 2007, but i throughly doubt they'll be about, or at least cared about, for the 2008 part, just like so many other bands that you'll read about in the nme, ultimately there is a fine line, as you say, in pushing a band forward into the spotlight, yet the difference seems to be that the nme keeps pushing a band to an extent that the pressure upon them is unliftable, causing OKish first albums with some great singles followed by mediocre follow ups that fail, because the band had little time to get used to becoming full time musicians lifestyle etc. because so much was expected so soon.

he's saying it's a good thing that the new coopers album hasn't been rushed out. the coopers were heavily hyped by all and sundry when they first emerged; I fail to see why sean's comment is "embarassing".

he's saying it's a good thing the album hasn't been rushed out, but linking the start of their career to the horrors (i think), ie thrown onto the front ocver of the nme when they don't deserve it one ickle bit.
if i'm correct than its embarrasing because the coopers toured and worked up a fanbase playing tiny shitty gigs for years , whilst the horrors, with their perfectly timed enterance into the fashion world, seem to be straight into playing sold out hmv gigs etc.
this depresses me, i started off trying to offend the nme and now i look like a stupid fanboy who will do anything to protect his favourite band. i suck.

ages ago when NME reviewed the YMSS/Redjetson split. It was a glowing write-up 'n' all, but they listed it as 'self-released'. It appears the bastards are unwilling to acknowledge that y'all even exist!

featured in those 'hallowed' pages a while back? It was a shock to see it as even though it was a good platform for DiS it seemed too muc like pandering, the likes of which i thought this site was above. I also remember being short of bog roll at the time...
Bottom line, the NME used to run on reactionary journalism and sharp opinions, these days it is a hack rag that Dis records would benefit naff all from being featured in.

to 4music, jo whileys producers and othersuch people who work for the publicly funded corp which make the real difference from 10,000 record sales to actually not losing money releasing an album. and people who book festivals. and alsorts of other people who probably still think the singles charts are relevant.